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Anne Ramsey (1 September 1929 - 11 August 1988) was an American actress who is most recognized for two roles: as Mama Fratelli in Steven Spielberg's The Goonies
; and as Mrs. Lift, the mother of Danny DeVito's character in her Academy Award nominated performance in Throw Momma from the Train
.

Born Anne Mobley in Omaha, Nebraska, she attended Bennington College and became interested in the theatre. She performed in several Broadway productions in the 1950s. She married actor Logan Ramsey in 1954 and moved to Philadelphia.

In the early 1970s, she began a long and successful career as a character actor in Hollywood. She appeared with her husband in five films, including The Sporting Club and Meet the Hollowheads, her first and last movie roles.

Ramsey's slurred speech, a trademark of her later performances, was caused in part from having some of her tongue and jaw removed during a cancer operation in the mid 1980s.

In 1988, her cancer relapsed and she succumbed to throat cancer in Los Angeles, aged 58.

Filmography

Meet the Hollowheads (1989) - Babbleaxe
Homer & Eddie (1989) - Edna
Another Chance (1989) - Leadlady
Scrooged
(1988) - Eva, woman in shelter
Love at Stake (1988) - Old Witch
Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood (1988) - The Hag
Throw Momma from the Train
(1987) - Mrs. Lift
Weeds (1987) - Mom Umstetter
Deadly Friend
(1986) - Elvira Parker
Say Yes (1986) - Major
The Goonies
(1985) - Mama Fratelli
The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (1984) - Bag Lady
Getting Physical (1984) - Lady at Police Station
The Seduction of Gina (1984) - Woman on Bus
The Killers (1984) - First Ragpicker
Herndon (1983) - Miss Helter
I Want to Live!
(1983) - Matron
National Lampoon's Class Reunion
(1982) - Mrs. Tabazooski
Marian Rose White (1982) - Teacher
A Small Killing (1981) - Doris
Any Which Way You Can
(1980) - Loretta Quince
White Mama (1980) - Heavy Charm
The Black Marble (1980) - Bessie Callahan
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979) - Rhea Childress
The Gift of Love (1978) - Maeve O'Halloran
Goin' South
(1978) - Spinster #2
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977) - Employment applicant
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
(1976) - Rachel
Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976) - Librarian
From Noon Till Three (1976) - Massive Woman
The New Original Wonder Woman (1975) - Taxi Driver
The Law (1974) - Eleanor Bleisch
For Pete's Sake (1974) - Telephone Lady
Rhinoceros (1974) - Woman with Cat
The Third Girl from the Left (1973) - Madelaine
Up the Sandbox (1972) - Battleaxe
The New Centurions (1972) - Wife of crazy man (uncredited)
The Sporting Club (1971) - Scott's Wife

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